I watched Tucker Carlson’s discussion about AI with Kevin O’Leary. I use AI very little and wouldn’t notice it if tomorrow it disappeared completely. Plus, I’m amenable to Carlson’s argument that data centers are ugly and loud. But in this discussion, I believe O’Leary won. Not that he’s extremely bright or anything. One thing he said was so patently ridiculous, I thought I’d never stop laughing. O’Leary clearly has sinusitis and speaks like an elephant with a clamp on his trunk. To illustrate the beauties of AI, he explained that he recently got a full-body scan that is now much cheaper because of AI. The scan revealed to him that he has a sinus infection. Which anybody not completely deaf and blind could have told him for free.
Still, Tucker didn’t manage to vanquish even this level of discourse. He spent an inordinate amount of time developing the favorite argument of Michael Moore that tax breaks for large companies are bad. Or that Google is not more moral than China. Compared to this accumulation of silliness, even O’Leary with his AI sinusitis sounded more intelligent.
It was a close match with O’Leary holding a slight edge.
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